Your Agents Are Using Your Credentials, and That Is the Problem
DataRobot, Friday, July 10th, 2026
DataRobot argues that AI agents borrowing human credentials creates a major enterprise security gap.
DataRobot examines why letting AI agents operate using human users' credentials is a growing security and governance problem.
As agents act autonomously across systems, reusing static human credentials makes it hard to attribute actions, enforce least privilege, or cleanly revoke access.
The post argues enterprises need agent-specific identity and access controls rather than treating agents like traditional users. It positions distinct machine identities as foundational to safely scaling agentic AI.